8:15 – 9:00 am

General Session (Royale Ballroom)

• Welcome and Introduction
• SSHELCO/KLN Reports
• Once and Future Library

Library Futures Tracks

1. Access Services
2. Reference and Instruction
3. Technical Services
4. Library Administration
5. Collection Management

All futures session discussions will focus on the following questions:

• What will the library be like in 2015?
• What will your area’s function have become?
• What will users need?
• How will your area get where it needs to be?

Each track will be asked to develop a summary of:

• What will be the biggest change to happen by 2015?
• What will be the most important change that users want/need?
• What will be the best thing/things the library can do to meet this need?
• What will be the best thing/things SSHELCO can do to meet this need?

Government Documents SIG

Katie Yelinek, Bloomsburg

Smart Boards in State Hospital Libraries

Leslie Pirl-Roth, WeSH

Presenter will describe her travels across the state as part of an LSTA grant to place smart boards in state hospital libraries. The session will discuss the set-up process, working with staff to use new technology, and how smart boards are used with mentally ill patients.

Curriculum and Instructional Media SIG
Karen J. Wanamaker, Kutztown

Planning for the 21st Century Library at Millersville: 2015-2050!

Marjorie Warmkessel, Greg Szczyrbak, Erin Dorney, Krista Higham, Marilyn McKinley Parrish, Millersville

Members of the Library Renovation committee at Millersville University have been actively involved in planning for the upcoming library renovation for the past 4 years. With architectural decision-making coming up later in 2010 and construction to begin by fall 2011, this session will focus on making the most of the planning process. Members of the committee will share insights about library renovation planning from many perspectives: philosophical framework, literature on 21st century learning spaces, advocacy on campus, political issues, fundraising, gathering input from our community (in and outside the library), transition planning, and communication. We have come a long way but still have challenges and exciting opportunities ahead of us. We will plan a follow up session for a future SSHELCO conference once our renovation is complete.  Come to this session and join in the conversation about re-envisioning the library as the cultural and intellectual center of campus!

Research and Writing for Publication Discussion

Aaron Dobbs, Shippensburg

Are you new or not so new to Academic Libraryland? Do you have to write for tenure an promotion? Are you looking for people with whom to write? Are you already published and want to offer advice on the process? If you're interested in a research and writing for publication group within SSHELCO/KLN libraries, we'll be discussing all this and more.

Changes in Technical Services Staffing and Workflow in Academic Libraries: Stay Relevant or Die!

Barry J. Gray and Christine L. Troutman, Edinboro

The importance of traditional library Technical Services work of acquisitions, cataloging and maintenance of print materials in academic libraries has diminished as their parent institutions spend a smaller amount of their budgets on those materials and devote ever larger sums of money to provision of electronic resources. With overall library budgets being squeezed by the current economic downturn, especially at state-funded institutions, technical services staff need to realize that performing their traditional work well may not spare them from staff and budget cuts, if what they do is perceived as less relevant to the future mission of the library. This round table discussion will focus on how academic library technical services are changing their staffing and workflow to play a greater role in acquiring and providing access to licensed Web-based resources. Topics include job descriptions, training, budget allocation, subject access to electronic resources, and ERMS.

Lunch/Poster Sessions

Information Literacy SIG

Monty McAdoo, Edinboro

Archives SIG

Marlyn Parrish, Millersville

Instructional Technology SIG

Ryan Sittler, California

The Post-Discovery Library

Scott Anderson, Millersville

Learn how Millersville University is utilizing the EBSCO Discovery Service to provide customized access to our entire collection or subject based groups of resources. Presentation will address Millersville’s evolving philosophical approach to a discovery environment, in addition to the use, administration, configuration and options for including local content (the catalog plus more), 3rd party widgets and other services within the discovery environment.

Sharing the Work – LibGuides in the PASSHE Libraries

Mame Purce, West Chester; Loring Prest, California; John Rosenhamer, Edinboro

Librarians from three libraries join forces to review how LibGuides can be collaborative undertakings. Join us to explore how subject guides can be customized for each institution, how to identify and adopt entire guides, and to discuss what and who from PASSHE might work on shared guides in the future.

ILL: New Services and More Collaboration

Krista Higham, Millersville and Michele Corcoran, Indiana

Discussion of how to facilitate collaboration amongst PASSHE with the demise of UBORROW and presentation on Rapid ILL and other new service offerings.

Google Tools: They're Free, Use Them!

Sheila Kasperek and Erin Dorney, Millersville

Google offers a range of free useful tools and this session will demo them for you. See Wave, Reader, Docs, Analytics, Picasa, Groups, Maps, and Calendars in action. Learn how they can be of use in your life and work, and how they can help students.

A Martian's Guide to Pop Culture Resources

Rick Lilla and Joby Topper, Lock Haven and Sylvia Pham, Kutztown

If a Martian suddenly appeared at your library's reference desk and said, “Hi there: I’m in a bit of a hurry—my spaceship leaves in five minutes—but could you please educate me in the ways of your people? When we return next month, we want to be able to adapt quickly and blend in”—what resources would you recommend to him? If you really wanted to give the Martian the ability to blend into the American scene, you would be wise to direct him to resources on popular culture—that is, to information about entertainment, attitudes, customs, and tastes that define the average citizen in the street.

While the chances of a Martian visiting your library are slim, you are likely to someday have a student (one who is probably rushing to meet an imminent deadline) ask you for resources on some aspect of pop culture for a Speech or Composition 101 assignment, or for a project in a film studies, modern music, or science fiction course. In this presentation, we intend to discuss some of the best resources we have found for pop culture studies, including books, films, magazines, websites, and newspapers.

Library Services via Mobile Devices

Bruce Jensen, Kutztown; Carol Otto, California; Brenda Corman, Lock Haven

Kutztown's Rohrbach Library offers several services tailored to networked mobile devices: live text reference; a handheld building tour; a mobile page showing real-time status of library and campus computer labs; a smallscreen LibGuide that links to relevant third-party tools; and the ability to text titles and call numbers from the OPAC. Data show that the U.S. and Canada have long trailed the rest of the world in adoption of cell phones’ multiple capabilities as media and academic content platforms, but that youth— born digital, raised mobile—and people of color have here led the way in embracing mobile technologies. The phone’s magnitude in the information landscape has grown at a pace scarcely acknowledged by many librarians. Educators have been roundly surpassed in this space by providers of entertainment, from whom there is much to learn. This presentation will share compelling evidence from many quarters that mobile services warrant the attention of academic libraries, and the participatory talk will highlight and demonstrate successful mobile efforts from Kutztown and beyond, including how-to details that librarians can apply to development of their own resources. Participants are encouraged to bring their phones, as well as their questions, opinions, and ideas for future steps.

Serials Holdings Standards: What They Are, How They Function, and How Do They Help Libraries to Serve Patrons

Sandy Chen, Clarion

A conceptual approach with detailed examples and suggestions for a better library practice with serials holding standards, particularly, MARC Format for Holdings Data (MFHD).

What’s Cool about Library Video Contests

Theresa McDevitt, Indiana

Presentation will discuss National Library Week Video contest held at IUP Libraries in the spring of 2009. Presentation will discuss other similar contests, how we went about it, and what the outcomes were.

State selection of a LMS/LCMS

Greg Szczyrbak, Millersville

The selection of a new Learning Management System (Desire2Learn) as well as a Learning Content Management System (Learning Edge’s Equella) provides an unprecedented opportunity for the system libraries to provide far ranging leadership in the teaching and learning enterprise. As Desire2Learn is implemented at our individual campuses, librarians can be an integral part of that development from the ground up. Furthermore, our knowledge and expertise is an even better match for the metadata intensive tasks that lie ahead in the implementation of an LCMS. This roundtable will be of interest to catalogers, archivists, information literacy instructors and all who wish for the library to be more deeply integrated with the learning enterprise at our campus and in our system.

Developing a Curriculum Map

Kimberly Grotewold and Melissa Gold, Millersville

As part of our “bin of evidence” for Millersville University’s re-accreditation site visit, the library has been tasked with creating a library department curriculum map. The library’s planning and assessment committee sees this challenge as an opportunity not only to fulfill the administration’s requirement, but also to better illuminate the scope of our work and our impact on student learning to those outside our department. Because the library department does not offer courses, the curriculum map must encompass all of our many roles, not just those of library classroom instructors and reference librarians, in order to demonstrate that impact. We are also looking at how this curriculum map can then inform our assessment activities. Due to the difficulty of this task for a non-school department, the committee is currently working through a series of documents to develop one, or a few, to best represent our curriculum. Because we realize that other PASSHE librarians may be struggling with similar issues, we propose either a panel discussion or case-study presentation for the SSHELCO Annual Meeting

ContentDM Roundtable

Judy Silva, Slippery Rock and Jean Burton, West Chester

ILL, Circulation, and Reserves SIG

Krista Higham, Millersville

A Planet in Peril! : Developing a 3D Game to Teach Students about Plagiarism

Ryan L. Sittler, California; Chad Sherman, David Keppel, Christine Schaeffer, Dana Hackley and Lauria Grosik, Indiana Doctoral Students

A handful of doctoral students at IUP have been working on a 3D game that features an alien race called the Phoxites.  The aliens predict the end of human civilization… due to a student plagiarizing an assignment. Far-fetched? Yes. Ridiculous? Yes. But it’s fun and educational! This panel presentation will talk about games for learning and show how easy (or difficult) the creation process really is. It's simpler than you might expect.

Acquisitions, Collection Development and Serials SIG

Christina McCawley, West Chester and Heather Love, Slippery Rock

How to Hit an Iceberg: Strategies for Staying Afloat in the Sea of Change

Monty L. McAdoo, Edinboro

Librarianship is facing many challenges and undergoing change on numerous fronts. The impact of changes in society and in higher education are familiar to many librarians.  But, we often overlook obstacles we may have created for ourselves professionally and otherwise. Using parallels —factual and metaphorical —between libraries (ship, a.k.a. “librarianship”) and icebergs (obstacles), this presentation will open by outlining some of the many personal, institutional, professional, and societal “icebergs” which we’ve already hit, are currently navigating, and/or are likely to encounter sometime in the future. The presentation will close by presenting and discussing strategies for navigating these icebergs and otherwise minimizing their impact.

Systems SIG

Carol Otto, California

Student Workers SIG

Cheryl Reynolds, Lock Haven

Shelf-Ready Books with YBP and Lessons from Blackwell

Stephanie Steely, Kutztown and Marilou Hinchcliff, Bloomsburg

Kutztown has recently implemented shelf-ready books with YBP. Bloomsburg has received shelf-ready processing from Blackwell for a year; they also switched in October to WorldCat Cataloging Partners for bib records and recently implemented Blackwell’s TOC service for those records, a service YBP will adopt as a result of the B&T acquisition of Blackwell. This follow-up to last year’s presentation on the Blackwell MARC with Books service will describe the implementation of YBP’s shelf-ready service, lessons learned from Blackwell’s physical processing service, and the functioning of the TOC service.

Roundtable Discussion on Reference Collections of the Future

Melissa Gold, Millersville

At Millersville, we have been weeding our physical reference collection down to the essentials and have been trying to develop a more robust online reference collection. However, it has been difficult to conceptualize what the reference collection should look like. So, I would be interested in discussing the process that we went through and the criteria that we had to think about in order to make weeding and purchasing decisions.

Transforming Acquisitions

Jesse Holden and D’Ann Ressler, Millersville

Starting in fall of 2007, Millersville University began a comprehensive overhaul of the selection-to-acquisitions process for monographs. Switching from a paper-based process to an online process transformed the way content was selected and purchased for the library’s collection. Major changes in process included monographic vendor switch from Baker & Taylor to YBP, loading library holdings from Voyager to GOBI, and performing all routine selection and ordering online via the GOBI interface. Additional changes in collection strategies, including e-books and EDI invoicing, have furthered this initiative. This program will give an overview of the steps and strategies in the process with an opportunity for questions from attendees.

Cataloging SIG

Jamey Harris, Mansfield

Reference SIG

John Rosenhamer, Edinboro

Using Clickers for Information Literacy Assessment: Progress and Pitfalls

Rachel McMullin and Clayton Garthwait, West Chester

We have been using clickers this year at West Chester University (WCU) Libraries to assess our library instruction program. WCU is currently undergoing its ten-year reaccreditation process under the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. Middle States requires assessment of library instruction that includes asking questions that evaluate student learning. We selected clickers, because we hope that, in addition to fulfilling our assessment requirements, we could also make use of their interactivity to improve our instruction sessions. We would like to share both our successes and the problems that we have faced while initiating this program.

Staff Support Jobs: Where We Have Been, Where We Are Going, and What We Can Do About It

Philip J. Tramdack, Slippery Rock

What are the trends in library support staff employment and what changes have been identified? This session will identify the types of jobs that are going to go by the wayside, the jobs which are being transformed by various factors, and the jobs that will emerge in the coming years. The discussion will examine the implications of State System position specifications that are more than 40 years old in some cases. Working with such archaic specifications hurts everybody: the people in the jobs, people trying to get upgrades who are doing new and different things that don’t fit the old models, the union that loses membership as jobs migrate to contract status, and management trying to fill a need that is obvious but for which the existing specifications just don’t cut it. The focus of the session will be on the trends, but will also attempt to connect the dots between what is happening in the industry and the implications for our staff.

Revised Copyright Following Global Chaos of 2012

Heather Love, Slippery Rock and Stephen Marvin, West Chester

This presentation examines copyright beyond 2015 due to the extinction level event of 2012. The global meltdown required us to begin again from Constitutional intent and recharge the nature of information and technology relative to copyright. Information delivery was transformed in numerous ways, not only facilitating speed and ease, but redefining and shaping acceptable norms. Universities must develop institutional guidelines and methods toward providing access to free scholarly resources generated from within their own institutions. Coverage of important issues, trends, and technologies related to copyright guidelines will be assembled relevant to academic institutions. Discussion will include the challenges faced among universities who pledge fair open access but also want to tag digital watermarks, restrictions or other means to restrain open access. The roles of social networks and specific social software services will be examined for creating, searching, sharing and sorting for instructional purposes. Challenging engagement of social software can be applied to gain:

• Increased knowledge of copyright compliance;
• Venue for discussion and interaction
• Awareness of issues regarding intellectual property;
• Understanding of legislative intent regarding copyright; and
• Open access and fair use for educational purposes.

The digital and electronic aspects of copyright are essential areas for study. Today in 2015, we need to go beyond the antiques such as databases, journals, and ebooks. Even today is too late. Now, mobile, and the way I want it is the current demand! Interactive workshop will highlight e-government and predictions for access as a result of the Google Books settlement.

Rooms have been reserved at the Holiday Inn in Grantville. Reservations must be made by March 5, 2010. The room rate is $95 single or double. Please contact the hotel directly at (717) 469-0661 and mention "SSHELCO Conference". Late arrivals (after 4:00 P.M.) can be guaranteed with a personal credit card. State vouchers are also accepted.